1. PAPER-3
Name: Sagar BVaghela
Roll No: 53
Enrollment No: 2069108420180052
Paper No: 3 LiteraryTheory & Criticism
Topic: Explain Aristotle’s theory of catharsis
M.A.Sem-1
Batch: 2017-19
Email Id: sagarvaghela2020@gmail.com
Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department Of English MKBU
4. INFORMATIONABOUT
WORD CATHARSIS:
□ Catharsis is taken from the Greek verb
“KATHOROS”
□ It is translated as “To purify” or “To clean” or
“To get emotional release”
□The term can applied in many different
situation.
5. The placeOf PITY & FEAR
in CATHARSIS
FEAR :
☆ In the form of vague and anxiety
☆ Fear may be also arise out recognition of guilt or outer
guilt
6. PITY INCATHARSIS
PITY :
☆ Aristotle told that, pity is
Occasioned by understand
Misfortune & fear by that
Of like ourselves
☆ Pity turns in to fear when
Object is closely related to
Us.
7. CATHARSIS IN
LITERATURE :
● Catharsis, a term in dramatic art describes the
effect of tragedy on the audience
●There have been, for political or aesthetic
reasons, deliberate attempts made to Subvert the
effect of catharsis in theatre.
●Three main aspects of CATHARSIS :
1: PURIFICATION 2 : PURGATION 3 :
CLARIFICATION
8. VIEWSOFARISTOTLE
☆ In literature, Catharsis takes a slightly different
meaning
☆ Aristotle has first used in his work “THE POETICS”
☆ He used it to discuss how drama can effect individual
to the viewer
☆ A good drama can raise the strong emotions
☆Viewer can leave thearte with refreshed and purified
in emotional experience
9. Examples ofCatharsis
■ Bertolt Brecht viewed catharsis as a pap for the
bourgeois theatre audience, and designed dramas which
left significant emotions unresolved, intending to force
social action upon the audience
■ Brecht reasoned that the absence of a catharsis
resolution would require the audience to take political
action in the real world, in order to fill emotional gap they
had experienced vicariously
